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Title: 1911 Fairground Off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury
Post by: eileenb on Monday 21 February 22 13:12 GMT (UK)

Is anyone able to tell me exactly where on Bolton Rd, this fairground was likely to have been?

Title: Re: 1911 Fairground Off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury
Post by: ShaunJ on Monday 21 February 22 15:03 GMT (UK)

Do you mean the Market Ground?

Now the site of the Asda store
https://mancunian1001.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/to-market-to-market-by-bus/

Title: Re: 1911 Fairground Off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury
Post by: eileenb on Monday 21 February 22 15:53 GMT (UK)

That seemed the most likely but I couldn't find anything to prove it!!

Many thanks ShaunJ

Title: Re: 1911 Fairground Off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury
Post by: BumbleB on Monday 21 February 22 16:25 GMT (UK)

Is this of any help?

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=53.51620&lon=-2.33070&layers=6&right=ESRIWorld

Title: Re: 1911 Fairground Off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury
Post by: BumbleB on Monday 21 February 22 16:29 GMT (UK)

Just a thought, eileenb - you specifically refer to "1911 Fairground off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury" - where has this information come from (if it's not too rude a question)?

Title: Re: 1911 Fairground Off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury
Post by: eileenb on Monday 21 February 22 16:51 GMT (UK)

Hello BumbleB
Information/combination from 1911 Census as per copy attached  by ShaunJ and my gt grandmother's death certificate which showed - where died "In a van, Fairground, Pendlebury, Swinton."

Is there a problem?

Title: Re: 1911 Fairground Off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury
Post by: BumbleB on Monday 21 February 22 17:02 GMT (UK)

Apologies - no I don't have problem with the information, I just wondered where "Fairground" had come from.

OK, there is a combination of information on 1911 census - Mary Jane is a "Stallholder (at Fairs)" and is living at Market Ground, off Bolton Road, Pendlebury.  However, personally, I'm not sure that that means that Market Ground is a fairground.   :-\  1911 entries either side of Mary Jane show addresses of 602 and 614 Bolton Road.

Title: Re: 1911 Fairground Off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury
Post by: ShaunJ on Monday 21 February 22 17:15 GMT (UK)

Another pointer: in the 1901 census Dudley Dyer, travelling showman, is living in a caravan on the Market Ground in Pendlebury.  In September that year his abode is given as "Fairground" when his daughter is baptised.

It's the same with Thomas Dyer in the next caravan in 1901: abode "Fairgound" at his daughter's baptism in 1902.

Title: Re: 1911 Fairground Off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury
Post by: eileenb on Monday 21 February 22 17:20 GMT (UK)

Thank you BumbleB, point taken.  I have been checking the whereabouts of the rest of the family but none of them were in Pendlebury, so no help there.  However, when weighing in ShaunJ baptisms I think that is the clincher.

Thank you both for your input.  Much appreciated.

Title: Re: 1911 Fairground Off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury
Post by: ShaunJ on Monday 21 February 22 17:25 GMT (UK)

Then there is Fair Street leading to the Market Ground:

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=19&lat=53.51648&lon=-2.33143&layers=168&right=ESRIWorld

And it is almost opposite Christ Church where those Dyer baptisms took place.

Title: Re: 1911 Fairground Off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury
Post by: eileenb on Wednesday 23 February 22 11:37 GMT (UK)

Thanks for that Shaun, just when I thought it was sorted !
Pendlebury is not somewhere I have ever visited, so not being too far away, I think I had better go find it.

Thanks to all for the input.

Title: Re: 1911 Fairground Off Bolton Rd, Pendlebury
Post by: ShaunJ on Wednesday 23 February 22 12:22 GMT (UK)

I think it is sorted. Everything, including Fair Street, points to the Market Ground.